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 greatly improved the telescope.'"--Id. "Cathmor's warriors sleep in death."--Macpherson's Ossian. "For parsing will enable you to detect and correct errors in composition."--Kirkham cor.  "O'er barren mountains, o'er the flow'ry plain, Extends thy uncontrolled and boundless reign."--Dryden cor.

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SPELLING.

LESSON I.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic."--Pope (or Johnson) cor. "Produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, governor of this state."--Jefferson's Notes, p. 94. "We have none synonymous to supply its place."--Jamieson cor. "There is a probability that the effect will be accelerated."--Id. "Nay, a regard to sound has controlled the public choice."--Id. "Though learnt [better, learned] from the uninterrupted use of guttural sounds."--Id. "It is by carefully filing off all roughness and all inequalities, that languages, like metals, must be polished."--Id. "That I have not misspent my time in the service of the community."--Buchanan cor. "The leaves of maize are also called blades."--Webster cor. "Who boast that they know what is past, and can foretell what is to come."--Robertson cor. "Its tasteless dullness is interrupted by nothing but its perplexities."--Abbott, right. "Sentences constructed with the Johnsonian fullness and swell."--Jamieson, right. "The privilege of escaping from his prefatory dullness and prolixity."--Kirkham, right. "But, in poetry, this characteristic of dullness attains its full growth."--''Id. corrected''. "The leading characteristic consists in an increase of the force and fullness."--Id cor. "The character of this opening fullness and feebler vanish."--''Id. cor. "Who, in the fullness of unequalled power, would not believe himself the favourite of Heaven?"--Id. right''. "They mar one an other, and distract him."--''Philol. Mus. cor. "Let a deaf worshiper of antiquity and an English prosodist settle this."--Rush cor. "This Philippic gave rise to my satirical reply in self-defence."--Merchant cor. "We here saw no innuendoes, no new sophistry, no falsehoods."--Id. "A witty and humorous vein has often produced enemies."--Murray cor. "Cry hollo! to thy tongue, I pray thee:[527] it curvets unseasonably."--Shak. cor. "I said, in my sliest manner, 'Your health, sir.'"--Blackwood cor. "And attorneys also travel the circuit in pursuit of business."--Barnes cor. "Some whole counties in Virginia would hardly sell for the value of the debts due from the inhabitants."--Webster cor. "They were called the Court of Assistants, and exercised all powers, legislative and judicial."--Id. "Arithmetic is excellent for the gauging of liquors."--Harris's Hermes'', p. 295. "Most of the inflections may be analyzed in a way somewhat similar."--Murray cor. "To epithets allots emphatic state,   While principals, ungrac'd, like lackeys wait." --T. O. Churchill's Gram., p. 326.

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Hence less is a privative suffix, denoting destitution; as in fatherless, faithless, penniless."--Webster cor. "Bay; red, or reddish, inclining to a chestnut colour."--Id. "To mimick, to imitate or ape for sport; a mimic, one who imitates or mimicks."--Id. "Counterroll, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; Counterrollment, a counter account."--Id. "Millennium, [from mille and annus,] the thousand years during which Satan shall be bound."--See Johnson's Dict. "Millennial, [like septennial, decennial, &c.,] pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years."--See Worcester's Dict. "Thralldom; slavery, bondage, a state of servitude."--Webster's Dict. "Brier, a prickly bush; Briery, rough, prickly, full of briers; Sweetbrier, a fragrant shrub."--See Ainsworth's Dict., Scott's, Gobb's, and others. "Will, in the second and third persons, barely foretells."--''Brit. Gram. cor. "And therefore there is no word false, but what is distinguished by Italics."--Id. "What should be repeated, is left to their discretion."--Id. "Because they are abstracted or separated from material substances."--Id. "All motion is in time, and therefore, wherever it exists, implies time as its concomitant."--Harris's Hermes'', p. 95. "And illiterate grown persons are guilty of blamable spelling."--''Brit. Gram. cor. "They will always be ignorant, and of rough, uncivil manners."--Webster cor. "This fact will hardly be believed in the northern states."--Id. "The province, however, was harassed with disputes."--Id. "So little concern has the legislature for the interest of learning."--Id. "The gentlemen will not admit that a schoolmaster can be a gentleman."--Id. "Such absurd quid-pro-quoes cannot be too strenuously avoided."--Churchill cor. "When we say of a man, 'He looks slily;' we signify, that he takes a sly glance or peep at something."--Id. "Peep; to look through a crevice; to look narrowly, closely, or slily"--Webster cor. "Hence the confession has become a hackneyed proverb."--Wayland cor. "Not to mention the more ornamental parts of gilding, varnish, &c."--Tooke cor. "After this system of self-interest had been riveted."--Dr. Brown cor. "Prejudice might have prevented the cordial approbation of a bigoted Jew."--Dr. Scott cor.'' "All twinkling with the dewdrop sheen,   The brier-rose fell in streamers green."--Sir W. Scott cor.

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The infinitive mood has, commonly, the sign to before it."--Harrison cor. "Thus, it is advisable